If you download a Mistral AI model from the Hugging Face platform, Mistral AI collects your Hugging Face username and email address for license enforcement and to send you product communications.
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Developers and researchers who download Mistral AI models from Hugging Face should be aware that doing so triggers personal data collection by Mistral AI, even if they have not created a direct Mistral AI account.
The updated policy now explicitly includes data accessed through third-party services and integrations users connect to Mistral AI Products as 'Input' data subject to collection and use. The policy removed its prior statement that Input and Output data are not used to train AI models when using Le Chat Enterprise or paid versions of Mistral APIs. This creates operational ambiguity: users of paid services and Enterprise customers no longer have a documented commitment that their data will be excluded from model training, though the privacy policy does not affirmatively state that model training now occurs. The policy also changed language describing product improvement from 'aggregated and anonymous statistics' to 'aggregated or anonymous datasets or statistics,' broadening the stated scope of what can be collected for improvement purposes.
View change record →New disclosure of data collection practices specific to Hugging Face platform users, addressing licensing enforcement and communication purposes.
View full change record →Hugging Face users who download Mistral AI models have their username and email address collected by Mistral AI for license enforcement and communications purposes, creating a data relationship with Mistral AI outside of a direct account signup.
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"Hugging Face. If you download our artificial intelligence models on Hugging Face, we collect your username and email address to enforce our license and send you communications about our new models.Excerpt from Mistral AI's Privacy Policy
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Developers and researchers who download Mistral AI models from Hugging Face should be aware that doing so triggers personal data collection by Mistral AI, even if they have not created a direct Mistral AI account.
Hugging Face users who download Mistral AI models have their username and email address collected by Mistral AI for license enforcement and communications purposes, creating a data relationship with Mistral AI outside of a direct account signup.
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